Samantha Guz
Biographic Data
| ID | 93395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samantha Guz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samantha |
| FAMILY NAME | Guz |
| SIGNATURE | GUZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6256-3939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
If Social Work Were a Person: An Arts-Based Exploration of Social Work Identity Development in the Deep South
As a collective of feminist social workers, 5 current MSW students and 1 Assistant Professor of social work, we merge reflexive group dialogue, what we refer to as “circle discussions”, and arts-based research to explore the following questions: What has contributed or hindered the development of our social work identity? What does it mean to be learning and practicing social work in the American Deep South during a time of systemic upheaval? Our…
Comparing the Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for Adolescent Outcomes in Schools Between the U.S. and East Asian Studies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) can be a culturally adaptive school-based intervention for youth. Despite the evidence that supports the practical use of SFBT with various populations, its effectiveness particularly among East Asian American (EAA) youth outcomes in school settings requires further study. For this systematic review and meta-analysis, we searched U.S. and East Asian studies (e.g., Chinese, Korean, and Japanese) published from…
A Narrative Analysis of the Group for Abolishing Whiteness: Tensions, Limitations, and Possibilities
In October 2019, 26 white-identifying students met in the Group for Abolishing Whiteness (GfAW). The GfAW was a biweekly intragroup dialogic space where white-identifying students examined and uprooted their everyday relationship to whiteness. The GfAW diverged from other, more traditional dialogic spaces in that it focused on intragroup practice and was oriented toward white abolition, ending whiteness as a social construct and dominant force, r…
Beyond Reform in Youth Justice: Conceptualizing Carceral Seepage Across Youth-Serving Systems
The child welfare system (CWS), juvenile legal system (JLS), and school-to-prison nexus are often framed as distinct institutions, yet they function as interconnected mechanisms of surveillance, control, and punishment—particularly for Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized youth. Through the lens of carceral seepage, this article examines how punitive logics extend across these youth-serving systems, reinforcing cycles of criminalization rath…
Innovation For the Good: ” An Historical Analysis of How Private Organizations Brokered Racialized Evidence
She Must Be Experimental, Resourceful, and Have Sympathetic Understanding”: Toxic white femininities as a Persona and Performance in School Social Work
In this paper, we theorize toxic white femininities as a performance and persona in school social work. To develop the theory and analytic tool of “toxic white femininities,” we used critical discourse analysis to analyze school social work professional association materials from 1906 to 1936. Our analysis isolated three performances of toxic white femininities in early 1900s school social work: (1) the exclusionary social and material gains of “…
I Hope I Make It”: Alternative School Students’ Attendance and the Need for an Expanded Accountability
Few empirical studies describe the interior world of alternative school settings. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 11 alternative school students, discussing factors that contribute to absenteeism as well as the circumstances that led them to enroll in an alternative setting. We find that students’ regular attendance is facilitated by (1) stable housing, (2) a means of transportation to school, (3) feelings of belonging, a…
Fostering Community-Engaged Research on Criminal Legal Innovations with Logic Models
There is a persistent disconnect between research and practice, both in the social work profession as well as in the criminal legal system. Community-engaged research has been suggested as an approach to bridge this divide, but specific tools are needed to integrate research and practice efforts. This article presents three distinct logic model development processes that occurred in collaborative research and practice efforts in the context of cr…
The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education
A Scoping Review of Empirical Asexuality Research in Social Science Literature
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for Students in Schools: A Comparative Meta-Analysis of the U.S. and Chinese Literature
Objective: This review analyzed the effectiveness of SFBT as a school-based intervention by synthesizing and comparing results from the English and Chinese literature. Method: In order to achieve a rigorous analysis, the search aligned with the Cochrane guidelines. Fifty studies, containing 246 effect size estimates and a total of 2,921 participants, were included in the review. Data on study and intervention characteristics were extracted using …
Characteristics of Effective School-Based, Teacher-Delivered Mental Health Services for Children
Purpose: The increasing need for school-based mental health services has altered teachers’ involvement in mental health services. Methods: This study presents a meta-analysis from a previous systematic review to identify which study characteristics result in effective treatment outcomes. Specific treatment characteristics analyzed in this study include type of intervention, treatment modality, length of treatment, and type of measurement. Effect …
School safety experiences of high school youth across sexual orientation and gender identity
Trajectories of Well-Being Among Latina Adolescents Who Attempt Suicide: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis
Significant research questions persist regarding the short- and long-term outcomes of Latina adolescents who attempt suicide. To address these limitations, we utilize an ecodevelopmental framework to identify potential factors that shape differential outcomes following a suicide attempt. Through an exploratory, longitudinal, qualitative research design, we investigate two research questions: How do trajectories of well-being vary among Latina tee…
Characteristics of Effective School-Based, Teacher-Delivered Mental Health Services for Children
Purpose: The increasing need for school-based mental health services has altered teachers’ involvement in mental health services. Methods: This study presents a meta-analysis from a previous systematic review to identify which study characteristics result in effective treatment outcomes. Specific treatment characteristics analyzed in this study include type of intervention, treatment modality, length of treatment, and type of measurement. Effect …
I Hope I Make It”: Alternative School Students’ Attendance and the Need for an Expanded Accountability
Few empirical studies describe the interior world of alternative school settings. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 11 alternative school students, discussing factors that contribute to absenteeism as well as the circumstances that led them to enroll in an alternative setting. We find that students’ regular attendance is facilitated by (1) stable housing, (2) a means of transportation to school, (3) feelings of belonging, a…
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for Students in Schools: A Comparative Meta-Analysis of the U.S. and Chinese Literature
Objective: This review analyzed the effectiveness of SFBT as a school-based intervention by synthesizing and comparing results from the English and Chinese literature. Method: In order to achieve a rigorous analysis, the search aligned with the Cochrane guidelines. Fifty studies, containing 246 effect size estimates and a total of 2,921 participants, were included in the review. Data on study and intervention characteristics were extracted using …
School safety experiences of high school youth across sexual orientation and gender identity
Trajectories of Well-Being Among Latina Adolescents Who Attempt Suicide: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis
Significant research questions persist regarding the short- and long-term outcomes of Latina adolescents who attempt suicide. To address these limitations, we utilize an ecodevelopmental framework to identify potential factors that shape differential outcomes following a suicide attempt. Through an exploratory, longitudinal, qualitative research design, we investigate two research questions: How do trajectories of well-being vary among Latina tee…
Characteristics of Effective School-Based, Teacher-Delivered Mental Health Services for Children
Purpose: The increasing need for school-based mental health services has altered teachers’ involvement in mental health services. Methods: This study presents a meta-analysis from a previous systematic review to identify which study characteristics result in effective treatment outcomes. Specific treatment characteristics analyzed in this study include type of intervention, treatment modality, length of treatment, and type of measurement. Effect …
School safety experiences of high school youth across sexual orientation and gender identity
Trajectories of Well-Being Among Latina Adolescents Who Attempt Suicide: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis
Significant research questions persist regarding the short- and long-term outcomes of Latina adolescents who attempt suicide. To address these limitations, we utilize an ecodevelopmental framework to identify potential factors that shape differential outcomes following a suicide attempt. Through an exploratory, longitudinal, qualitative research design, we investigate two research questions: How do trajectories of well-being vary among Latina tee…
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for Students in Schools: A Comparative Meta-Analysis of the U.S. and Chinese Literature
Objective: This review analyzed the effectiveness of SFBT as a school-based intervention by synthesizing and comparing results from the English and Chinese literature. Method: In order to achieve a rigorous analysis, the search aligned with the Cochrane guidelines. Fifty studies, containing 246 effect size estimates and a total of 2,921 participants, were included in the review. Data on study and intervention characteristics were extracted using …
A Scoping Review of Empirical Asexuality Research in Social Science Literature
She Must Be Experimental, Resourceful, and Have Sympathetic Understanding”: Toxic white femininities as a Persona and Performance in School Social Work
In this paper, we theorize toxic white femininities as a performance and persona in school social work. To develop the theory and analytic tool of “toxic white femininities,” we used critical discourse analysis to analyze school social work professional association materials from 1906 to 1936. Our analysis isolated three performances of toxic white femininities in early 1900s school social work: (1) the exclusionary social and material gains of “…
I Hope I Make It”: Alternative School Students’ Attendance and the Need for an Expanded Accountability
Few empirical studies describe the interior world of alternative school settings. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 11 alternative school students, discussing factors that contribute to absenteeism as well as the circumstances that led them to enroll in an alternative setting. We find that students’ regular attendance is facilitated by (1) stable housing, (2) a means of transportation to school, (3) feelings of belonging, a…
Fostering Community-Engaged Research on Criminal Legal Innovations with Logic Models
There is a persistent disconnect between research and practice, both in the social work profession as well as in the criminal legal system. Community-engaged research has been suggested as an approach to bridge this divide, but specific tools are needed to integrate research and practice efforts. This article presents three distinct logic model development processes that occurred in collaborative research and practice efforts in the context of cr…
The Unteachables: Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education
Beyond Reform in Youth Justice: Conceptualizing Carceral Seepage Across Youth-Serving Systems
The child welfare system (CWS), juvenile legal system (JLS), and school-to-prison nexus are often framed as distinct institutions, yet they function as interconnected mechanisms of surveillance, control, and punishment—particularly for Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized youth. Through the lens of carceral seepage, this article examines how punitive logics extend across these youth-serving systems, reinforcing cycles of criminalization rath…
Innovation For the Good: ” An Historical Analysis of How Private Organizations Brokered Racialized Evidence
If Social Work Were a Person: An Arts-Based Exploration of Social Work Identity Development in the Deep South
As a collective of feminist social workers, 5 current MSW students and 1 Assistant Professor of social work, we merge reflexive group dialogue, what we refer to as “circle discussions”, and arts-based research to explore the following questions: What has contributed or hindered the development of our social work identity? What does it mean to be learning and practicing social work in the American Deep South during a time of systemic upheaval? Our…
Comparing the Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for Adolescent Outcomes in Schools Between the U.S. and East Asian Studies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) can be a culturally adaptive school-based intervention for youth. Despite the evidence that supports the practical use of SFBT with various populations, its effectiveness particularly among East Asian American (EAA) youth outcomes in school settings requires further study. For this systematic review and meta-analysis, we searched U.S. and East Asian studies (e.g., Chinese, Korean, and Japanese) published from…
A Narrative Analysis of the Group for Abolishing Whiteness: Tensions, Limitations, and Possibilities
In October 2019, 26 white-identifying students met in the Group for Abolishing Whiteness (GfAW). The GfAW was a biweekly intragroup dialogic space where white-identifying students examined and uprooted their everyday relationship to whiteness. The GfAW diverged from other, more traditional dialogic spaces in that it focused on intragroup practice and was oriented toward white abolition, ending whiteness as a social construct and dominant force, r…
Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Education Discipline and Inequality (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)